Bekele's tendency to refuse to shake hands with other runners??????????

Can any of you Ethiopians tell me what music was playing at R.L. the other night when Bekele ran? Thought it sounded foreign, figured it may have been Ethiopian and heard someone say their is a song dedicated to him?

It's from the Ethiopian Music video made after the Athens 10km -- "Kenenisa, Anbessa" (Kenenisa, the Lion) -- there's a thread on it.

Could you tell us what he said?

Kinshasha,

You need to stop this garbage because I don't think it is true. This might not be related to what you are saying but my friend told me she saw Kenenisa at Sheraton Addis for New Years Eve and asked him if it is okay to take a picture with him. He was very polite and kind to her and she has a picture to prove it.

Haile fan wrote:

Kinshasha,

You need to stop this garbage because I don't think it is true. This might not be related to what you are saying but my friend told me she saw Kenenisa at Sheraton Addis for New Years Eve and asked him if it is okay to take a picture with him. He was very polite and kind to her and she has a picture to prove it.

Haile Fan:

You and some others need to READ WHAT I WROTE!!!

I reiterated my great respect for Bekele as both athlete AND PERSON, but you do not need to speak English to shake hands with someone.

Broe and Ritzenhein walked directly up to him and extended a hand. His teammate, who does not speak English, shook Broe's hand.

He had not suffered his loss in 2001 when this happened to Ritzenhein.

I am therefore confused as to why such a kind person, as I am sure he is, would outright ignore two American runners who he could plainly see right in front of him offering to congratulate him.

That is strange, as is the preponderence of people posting on this thread that have their heads so extensively wedged in their anal cavities that no data transmission is possible.

here is the quote from the article:

"When Dathan tried to ask him questions about his training, Bekele ignored him."

He didn't speak any English.

Kinshasha

You are taking a sentence from an article and reading a lot into it. I will give you the broe incident.. but the ritz incident is not described as a missed opportunity.

I think i see your point that it is weird that he didn't shake someones hand. I have caught myself walking down the hall and someone says hi .. and i have a delayed reaction.. or i do somehting because i am engrossed in my thoughts.

I think that it is out of charachter.. and I think you will see that KB will more than make up for this in what he does.

I have heard his interview on the Voice of America.. and I am no fan of Ethiopians... but kenenisa and haile are one and the same.. both are very driven and both are articulate smart and very compassionate.

but keneinisa suffers from the language barrier. We will see how this will turn out.

later.

Well "geez", you had no problem with Kiros the Eritrean's idiotic comment about us "ignorent" Americans, but took issue with me when I pointed out his awful grammar? I speak French, Spanish and English, but feel there is no need to learn Tigre, not "Eritrean", which is most commonly spoken in Eritrea. How many languages for You Ghost??

Stoopid wrote:

Typical post from someone idiot Eritrean who is still probably picking fleas off himself and waited all day for the one computer in his village to free up.

Wow. That's one of the most racist things I've seen posted here in a while. This will be an interesting test for the letsrun.com censors. Anything critical of President Bush has to go, but will they leave up a remarkably tasteless use of stereotypes and western supremacy?

id wrote:

He probably wipes his butt with his left hand too. Let's analyze this as well.

Most Muslums do that, because they eat with the right, so it is a possibility.